"My general": salad on the festive table
Before the holidays home cooks are feverishlysort out recipes in their notebooks or wander around the various Internet sites in search of some interesting and not yet "worn out" dishes. If you share these torments, you probably will be interested in "My General" - the salad is not only tasty, but also very beautiful. And the taste of it is quite unconventional, but not too exotic, so that the overwhelming majority of tasters will like it.
How to choose meat
"My general" is a salad with meat, which is inits leading component. And from what kind of meat you prefer, the taste of the whole dish will depend. In most recipes, boiled beef is indicated. However, there are options and with pork - in this case, you need to select a piece in a shorter time. There are versions of salad and chicken. In our opinion - not the most successful. Unless you take not a breast, but a hip. Very elegant taste of salad with smoked chicken - a real decoration of the table.
By the way, meat does not necessarily have to be cooked. It is possible to make a non-standard "My General": the salad is collected on the basis of roasted meat. Peppered and salted, it is cut into thin strips and brought to the pan until ready. In the end, for aroma, two crushed garlic cloves are added.
Preparation of products
In addition to meat, you will also need beets, carrots,eggs. They pre-cook and cool. All products are rubbed into different bowls on a large grater. Meat is cut into small cubes or sorted into fibers, it depends on what kind of its form you are on. Still need to grate the cheese; it is taken from solid varieties, by weight - about half of the meat component.
The last component is walnuts. They are cleaned, dry-fried and not very finely chopped. A quarter kilo of meat will go somewhere half a cup of nut crumbs.
Assembling salad
"My general" is a salad puff pastry. That's why it looks attractive, and taste buds are pleasing. In principle, the sequence of layers is not very important, but the following is recommended.
1 layer of meat. If you cooked meat, and not fried with garlic, the layer should be slightly flavored with chopped denticles, and then cover with mayonnaise.
2 layer cheese. He, too, is covered with mayonnaise mesh.
3 layer of egg. To smear or not - at the discretion of the hostess: the layer is rather thin, you need to be careful not to get too "wet" salad.
4 layer carrot, and it mayonnaise promazyvaetsya necessarily.
5 layer - beet. Again, mayonnaise and sprinkle with nuts. You can also decorate with branches of greenery.
That's ready, "My General". Salad will only survive in the refrigerator, so that the layers are soaked with juices. So it is advised to do it in the evening, or in the morning, if the celebration is scheduled for the time in the dinner area.
"My general": salad with prunes and other versions of the dish
A piquant note can be brought into the festive salad, if you add a prune layer. Dried fruits are steamed, released from the stone, cut into strips and laid over the meat.
"My general" is a salad, which is by various housewivesis seen in its own way. Some add the potato layer. This idea seems to us not too successful - the salad begins to resemble a "fur coat", not with herring, but with meat. But the idea of mixing garlic with beets, rather than sprinkling meat on them, is quite sensible: the smell and flavor soften, but are not lost. Some chefs sandwich the salad with onion, crumbled and soaked in lemon juice. This is an amateur, but you can try.
Zest of salad can give and pomegranate seeds,they spray it over the beetroot layer. In short, experiment: "My general" is a salad that gives a wide enough scope for culinary fantasy.
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